Deadline: 2016-09-20
Region: Europe
Job description:
The „Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics: Science and
More Information:http://www.kseta.kit.edu
Region: Europe
Job description:
The „Karlsruhe School of Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics: Science and
Technology (KSETA)“ is the Graduate School of the KIT-Center for Elementary Particle and
Astroparticle Physics (KCETA); it is funded by the DFG within the Excellence Initiative since
November 2012. KSETA is now accepting applications for several PhD positions starting in
January 2017 or later. Our PhD program leads to a doctoral degree in physics, informatics or
an engineering discipline.
With more than 400 scientists, KCETA bundles the research activities of the Karlsruhe Institute
of Technology (KIT) in theoretical and experimental elementary particle and astroparticle
physics and is one of Europe’s leading institutions in these fields. The graduate school KSETA
offers an inspiring interdisciplinary research environment composed of the fields of cosmic
radiation, dark matter, quantum field theory, experimental and theoretical collider physics,
experimental and theoretical flavour physics, neutrino physics and computational physics as
well as the development of modern technologies necessary for these fields such as
superconducting terahertz detectors, analogue and digital electronics, optical transmission
technology and parallel signal processing on GPUs. We contribute key components to largescale
research projects such as AMS, Auger, Belle, CMS, EDELWEISS, JEM-EUSO and
KATRIN, as well as the German Tier-1 center GridKa.
The graduate school provides an attractive research environment, with subjects for doctoral
dissertations at the intersections of experimental and theoretical particle and astroparticle
physics as well as engineering, in particular in the areas electronics, detector instrumentation,
sensory, computer science, data management and data analysis. The school augments this
with an individually tailored course program for both physicists and engineers.
A Masters or Diploma degree in physics, electronic engineering, computer science or other
related discipline qualifying for research at KSETA is required for application. Please register
at http://www.kseta.kit.edu/application.php.
Further information about the application procedure, available research topics, subjects for
doctoral dissertations and the KSETA principal investigators can be found at
http://www.kseta.kit.edu.
The PhD positions at KSETA are awarded several times per year. The next closing date for
applications is September 20th, 2016. Documents received after the deadline will only be
considered in the following application period.
Funding will be provided through employment contracts or scholarships of the Graduate
Funding Program of German States (Landesgraduiertenförderung).
More Information:http://www.kseta.kit.edu